A week later as the night set in deeper, renowned blogger and NRM supporter, Isma Olaxes (real names Ibrahim Lubega Tusubira), is also gunned down, and, just like the minister’s murder, shock engulfs the nation.
Like the murders before, this too is likely to follow the same script. Talk shows through out the week will focus on this, the media will be awash with different accounts of what could have possibly happened, the opposition will accuse the Government of certain things and Police will assure us everything is being done to bring the murderers to book.
These murders make us the indigenous residents of this beautiful country Uganda feel unsafe. And we are right to feel unsafe.
The people murdered might have crossed paths with some powerful people. Maybe they deserved it, maybe not, but one thing is for sure that these witch-hunts have at times taken lives of innocent people.
Ordinary Ugandans now have to mind their safety wherever they are else they find themselves victims of murder as a result of a hunt down of someone in the same vicinity as them.
The attempted murder of works minister, Gen. Katumba Wamala, ended in the loss of life of his daughter who was in the car with him. She was innocent for whatever reason the murderers wanted to kill her father.
A woman who was operating a retail shop when Kaweesi murder took place lost her life as a result of a stray bullet.
Most Ugandans now feel they are not safe anymore.
President Museveni in his earlier years boasted of tight security controls that made Uganda feel secure, thus being attractive to our neighbouring countries such as Kenya.
This is no more.
The situation has been made worse by the ever-increasing lack of trust in security agencies.
They agencies have kidnapped, tortured and coarsed people involved in participatory politics and innocent Ugandans on top of actively participating in crime.
For Ugandans to feel safe again, all security agencies will have to be restructured and given a fresh identity. This may not happen in the shortest time possible but can happen over time.
As a country, we risk drowning into more turmoil if nothing is done regarding the safety of Ugandans.